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Erin Forbes

@eeforbes.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in English. University of Bristol, UK. Writing about Poe, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Hawthorne, ghosts, crime, race, environment. Author of Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature (Johns Hopkins UP 2024) She/her/hers.

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CFP Borders and Ethno-Nationalism: The State of/in Americanist Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Β  Β  BrANCA: The British Association of Nineteenth Century Americanists seeks proposals to its...

BrANCA has extended our deadline to 30th Sept for our symposium in Paris (12-13 December). Please share! We invite individual paper or group proposals on long 19th-c US literary culture. Abstracts up to 200 words and 100-word bios to BrANCAinPARIS@gmail.com. branca-2025.weebly.com/cfp.html

16.09.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Huge congratulations to Dr Erin Forbes @eeforbes.bsky.social, whose monograph, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2024), has been awarded 'Honourable Mention' for the British Association for American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize! baas.ac.uk/awards/previ...

23.06.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted that my book has received an "Honourable Mention" from the British Association of American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize!
@officialbaas.bsky.social thank you!

23.06.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

21.05.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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TODAY the final part of Sean O'Brien's series 'Marx and the Climate Crisis' comes out on your Youtube channel along with a transcript on theHythe ✨ This lecture focuses on Marx and and Environmentalism 🌿
Watch the first three parts of the lecture seriesπŸ”— link in bio

#letscreate #lecture #marx

07.03.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

Woo hoo!! It’s been an absolute pleasure. Congrats Dr Read!!

07.02.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I the only one (still) using Text Edit?

07.01.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to have my essay on Charles Chesnutt and early Black environmentalism included in this new collection, edited by the superb Bob Levine and Russ Castronovo
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18.12.2024 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire worldβ€”our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so goodβ€”& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it

16.12.2024 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5930    πŸ” 1360    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 128
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Fara Dabhoiwala Β· A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

Fara Dabhoiwala acts as historical detective, sifting literature, art, astronomy, libel to uncover this fascinating exemplar of the recrudescence of Anglo-American racism AND the extraordinary lives nevertheless lived in its wake. A true story of pre-1900 anti-racism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

28.11.2024 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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